The service may be configured to trust an external identity provider using SAML 2.0, so that users authenticated by that provider can obtain cloud credentials or assume roles.
Federated Identity - SAML
CCC.IAM.CP08
Related Threats
| ID | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CCC.IAM.TH01 | Valid Cloud Credentials Abuse | Valid identity credentials such as access keys, tokens or passwords are misused or compromised. Examples include public exposure, token theft, unprotected metadata service of a compromised compute instance or brute-force attacks. The use of these credentials can provide unauthorized access to the cloud environment, potentially bypassing other security controls and enabling lateral movement across cloud resources. |
| CCC.IAM.TH03 | Overly-Permissive Identity Trust Policy | An IAM role or service principal's trust policy is configured to allow principals from untrusted or overly broad scopes, such as any identity in any account, to assume or impersonate it. This can allow an external or unauthorized identity to gain access to the cloud environment, completely bypassing internal identity controls. |
| CCC.IAM.TH04 | Credentials are Created Without Authorization | A principal holds permissions to create credentials, such as access keys, service account keys, client secrets or session tokens, beyond what its function requires, or a compromised identity holds such permissions. Additional credentials are then created outside the organization's provisioning process and remain valid after the originating access ends. This compromises the integrity of the access model and the confidentiality of every resource the new credentials can reach. |
| CCC.IAM.TH10 | Orphaned Federated Identity Retains Access | A federated identity is de-provisioned from the external Identity Provider (IdP), but its corresponding cloud identity remains active within the cloud environment. This orphaned identity creates a latent access path that could be exploited if the original username is reactivated or reassigned in the IdP, granting unintended access to a new principal. |